Thanks for the suggestion - It's on the to-do list now. Thanks!

While working on a personal project I needed an engaging calendar which displayed an entire year at a time. Looking around I couldn't find one I liked so I developed my own.

I'm not sure how useful people will find this calendar useful, but I thought it was fun enough to share. Who knows, maybe even someone other than myself will find a use for it :)

I keep picturing HackerNews being rewritten with Meteor so I can watch up-votes in realtime.

Seriously though, Meteor looks incredible and I can't wait to mess around with it! Awesome work.

I think it's unfortunate an article like this even gets up-votes on Hacker News.

It's Census data - unfortunately from 2001 - we're preparing to upgrade with the latest data from the 2010 Census which is just now becoming available...slowly...

Thanks for the feedback on 11201. I anticipate issues like this in the data set.

May want to verify how you're parsing the data set, am finding several ZIP codes which are close, but not quite. For example 12590 is drawn accurately (as I recall, haven't lived there in a decade), but when I enter 12603 I get the same map for 12590, when 12603 should be farther north as it's poughkeepsie. I tried this in two separate browsers so it wasn't a caching thing unless you're caching by client IP.

Another example: 11202 shouldn't have a map at all, it's reserved for the central PO in Brooklyn (Cadman Plaza GPO), instead it's being drawn as a region in North Brooklyn.

Another example from outside Brooklyn: 60515 (Downers Grove, IL) looks accurate, but 60516 (southern Downers Grove) appears to be drawn using the 60517 (Woodridge, IL) boundaries, and when I punch in 60517 it gets drawn using the boundaries for 60561 (Darien, IL).

I haven't played with GIS data for several years but remember than there was a set of ZIP code data sets around 2005 which had accurate latitude/longitude points but the ZIP codes were frequently off by one (I ended up having to manually massage the data because I couldn't find a pattern to the way the ZIP code was appearing in the data).

Received your email and will be in touch as soon as the API is finished.

I don't know what impresses me more - The demonstration of the functional prototype or how quickly this was done since the release of Kinect.

That will be a really interesting project to follow.

Looks great. Biggest thing missing in my opinion is the date/time of the tweet.

Good work!

I think so too

I think my problem with development articles on Smashing Magazine is that they most often tend to be "good advice" and a little thin on content.

While a lot of the information in that article is relevant/important from a foundational aspect, it only scratches the surface of mobile development.

Additionally - to barely mention mobile frameworks like jqTouch, jQuery Mobile, & Sencha Touch under a section called "Special iPhone / iPad Enhancements" is not only misleading (WebKit is also on Android, hello) but , if expanded on, could have been the most helpful part of that article for someone who really wants to learn about mobile development.

The conclusion of the article talks about the infancy of mobile and how standards are emerging. I would argue that frameworks like the ones above can help drive mobile standards and also enable developers to build applications within the mobile space with confidence.

>"What moved me to post this: the other day folks here were discussing what hinders cloud service adoption. IMO, stuff like this does the most damage."

I completely agree. Speaking for myself, stories like this cause me to pause even more before joining, relying on, trusting, and eventually paying for any web based service.